COVID-19 | Private firms are now collecting the details of employees and tenants who are interested in paying to get their staff vaccinated. They are part of a pilot programme involving public-private partnership roll-out of Covid-19 vaccines.

Participating firms would have to cover costs for the immunisation process, while the vaccines are provided free of charge under National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (NIP).

Spearheaded by the International Trade and Industry Ministry (Miti), the project is currently at a preliminary stage involving a handful of large companies, according to sources.

It has been identified that one of the companies involved is the Sunway Group, which...